Sunday, December 18, 2005

[Bookshelf 2005]

Beating the Devil : The Making of Night of the Demon [6/10]
non-fiction by Tony Earnshaw (2005)

Better Betting with a Decent Feller : A Social History of Bookmaking [6/10]
non-fiction by Carl Chinn (2004)

Between Meals : An Appetite for Paris [7/10]
non-fiction by A.J.Liebling (first published 1962; edition of 1986; reprint of 2001)

Blue Highways : A Journey into America [9/10]
non-fiction by William Least Heat Moon (1983)

Buried Alive : The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear [7/10]
non-fiction by Jan Bondeson (2001)

The Catcher in the Rye [10/10]
fiction by J D Salinger (1951; edition of 1978)*

The Chain of Chance [8/10]
fiction by Stanislaw Lew (1975; translation of 1978; edition of 2000)*

Dead Lagoon [6/10]
fiction by Michael Dibdin (1994; edition of 1995; reprint of 1999)*

D.C. Confidential [7/10]
non-fiction by Christopher Meyer (2005)

Delay [6/10]
fiction by Tim Krabbe (1994; edition of 2005)

Destinations [8/10]
non-fiction by Jan Morris (1980)

The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair That Changed America
[9/10]
non-ficton by Erik Larson (2003)

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary [7/10]
fiction by M R James (first published 1904/1911/1974; edition of 1974)

The Great Port : A Passage Through New York [9/10]
non-fiction by Jan Morris (first published 1969; edition of 1985)

Hollywood's New Radicalism : War, Globalisation and the
Movies from Reagan to George W Bush
[4/10]
non-fiction by Ben Dickenson (2005; publication-date 2006)

The Honorary Consul [7/10]
fiction by Graham Greene (first published 1973; edition of 1999; reprint of 2004)

Humboldt and the Cosmos [7/10]
non-fiction by Douglas Botting (1973)

I Am Legend [8/10]
fiction by Richard Matheson (1956)

In Cold Blood [6/10]
non-fiction by Truman Capote (1965; edition of ?2003?)

In the Miso Soup [8/10]
fiction by MURAKAMI Ryu (first published 1997; translation of 2003; edition of 2005)

Jimmy Connors Saved My Life [6/10]
non-fiction by Joel Drucker (2004)

A Kiss Before Dying [9/10]
fiction by Ira Levin (1954; edition of 1960; reprint of 1961)*

The Lathe of Heaven [9/10]
fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971; edition of 2003)

The Left-Handed Woman [5/10]
fiction by Peter Handke (first published 1976; translation of 1977; edition of 1982)

Marcel Duchamp : The Bachelor Stripped Bare [8/10]
non-fiction by Alice Goldfarb Marquis (2002)

Midnight In Sicily [8/10]
non-fiction by Peter Robb (1996, edition of 1999)

North Dallas Forty [9/10]
fiction by Peter Gent (1973)*

Open Net [7/10]
non-fiction by George Plimpton (2003)

The Rise of Benedict XVI [6/10]
non-fiction by John L Allen (2005)

Speak, Memory [7/10]
non-fiction by Vladimir Nabokov (1951)

Ways of Escape [7/10]
non-fiction by Graham Greene (1980)

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* = re-reading

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